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Title: Confining ensemble of dyons

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. St. Petersburg NPI, Gatchina, 188 300, St. Petersburg (Russian Federation)

We construct the integration measure over the moduli space of an arbitrary number of N kinds of dyons of the pure SU(N) gauge theory at finite temperatures. The ensemble of dyons governed by the measure is mathematically described by a (supersymmetric) quantum field theory that is exactly solvable and is remarkable for a number of striking features: (i) The free energy has the minimum corresponding to the zero average Polyakov line, as expected in the confining phase; (ii) the correlation function of two Polyakov lines exhibits a linear potential between static quarks in any N-ality nonzero representation, with a calculable string tension roughly independent of temperature; (iii) the average spatial Wilson loop falls off exponentially with its area and the same string tension; (iv) at a critical temperature, the ensemble of dyons rearranges and deconfines; and (v) the estimated ratio of the critical temperature to the square root of the string tension is in excellent agreement with the lattice data.

OSTI ID:
21027717
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 76, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.056001; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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